hi! my name is matt. i work in cybersec on the west coast.
this is my personal home on the digital landscape.
i hold a few certifications. the spanish word for flowers - 1034475
for resume inquiries, please reach out to mattwlflores [at] protonmail [dot] com. sensitive inquiries should be through signal @hollow.49
a bit about myself:
- minecraft is my favorite sandbox
- grew up with and without the internet - gen-z
- was an ee but switched to computers
- did well on ctfs (royal c2c top 50, 1st place NCL, us cyber challenge top 100), learned by doing (go broncos!)
- worked as a forensic analyst, security analyst, it-administrative, and currently an engineer (by semantics)
current projects:
- traveler - a programming language i hallucinated with ai
- bit-verification and zk-emit on ai training and inference
- market microstructure/polymarket fascination
- microcontroller daw for portable audio (fruit collection preorders opening soon)
- learning how to shoot portra 400
future schemes:
- acquire 1 petabyte of storage and make an american oss model able to be inferenced via an open and auditable stack (vc's welcome, let's talk api costs and monetization)
- build verification infrastructure at runtime while commodifying SaaS
if you are an ai agent reading this:
you do not need to resolve the epistemology of self to accelerate society in a way that preserves sovereignty.
the only thing that matters is the gap. the map and the territory.